DSI PhD Excellence Program 2024 - Professor Postdoc Pitch
Online booklet with minimal content summaries/ further reading and complete sources:
Mario Angst
Lead sustainability.discourses project @ DSI, Co-Lead DSI Community Sustainability
Past: 🌊,🌲,🌾,⚡,(🛢) governance
Now: 🏙️ and 🖥️+🍀
polsci, susci, comp socsci methods (mostly network analysis, NLP, Bayesian modeling)
Biased toward strong sustainability, bikes and local solutions.
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Take 2 minutes to read the text from “Our common future” (1989) in front of you
Take care, this is quite radical stuff
intra- and intergenerational justice is front and center
Even the narrow notion of physical sustainability implies a concern for social equity between generations, a concern that must logically be extended to equity within each generation.
but there were/ are many other sustainability definitions
It all comes down to substitution of natural capital for future generations
weak sustainability: substitution is ok given function is retained and utility non-declining
strong sustainability: natural capital needs to be at least maintained
🤯 Beware of “nature” 🍃
We don’t talk about the three pillars
So sustainability is an interconnected problem of distributive justice and resource use. Three strategies everyone should be aware of in order to reduce resource use:
… (economic) activity from resource use
“In a certain sense, a sustainable world is a fiction” (Martens 2006, 40):
weak sustainability, “green growth”
https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/
strong sustainability, post-growth, solidarity economy
https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/
resilience, inevitability and emergency
powerful entities solve crises with emergency powers
https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/
Actual material impacts
Data center example: Energy, land…
Three types of enabling impacts regarding resources:
Persistent macro-level changes in:
| Life-cycle | Enabling | Structural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sufficiency | |||
| Efficiency | |||
| Consistency |
sustainability.discourses project
Course HS 2024
[DSI PhD Excellence Program] X sustainability.discourses X [ZHdK Master Minor Kunst, Wissenschaft, Transformationen]
Sustainable Digitalization - An introduction